"last stitch effort"

[Dennis R. Preston]

Bunch of lax-vowel eggers!

dInIs

>On Sep 24, 2004, at 6:56 AM, David Bowie wrote:
>
>>I am somewhat embarassed to admit that i've been puzzling away in
>>silence
>>all this time, trying desparately to figure out why in the world these
>>things would be called "eggcorns", since "eggcorn" sounds nothing at
>>all
>>like "acorn" to me.
>>
>>I finally got it this morning--and this in the face of the fact that
>>Jeanne
>>and i regularly argue over whose pronunciation of "egg" is correct,
>>her [eg]
>>or my [Eg].
>>
>>Does this mean i have to turn in my linguist badge?
>
>if so, i'm in trouble too.  the term was opaque to me the first time i
>heard/saw it.
>
>arnold


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